story: CHAPTER XXIX 
  
  Have you seen but a bright lily grow, Before rude hands have touched it? Have you marked but the fall of the snow, Before the soil hath smutched it?--BEN JONSON 
  
  At the end of a week Mervyn made his appearance in a vehement hurry. Cecily's next sister, an officer's wife, was coming home with two little children, for a farewell visit before going to the Cape, and Maria and Bertha must make way for her. So he wanted to take Phoebe home that afternoon to get the Underwood ready for them. 
  
  'Mervyn, how can I go? I am not nearly ready.' 
  
  'What can you have been doing then?' he exclaimed, with something of his old temper. 
  
  'This house has been in such a state.' 
  
  'Well, you were not wanted to nurse the sick man, were you? I thought you were one that was to be trusted. What more is there to do?' 
  
  Phoebe looked at her list of commissions, and found herself convicted. Those patterns ought to have been sent back two days since. What had she been about? Listening to Mr. Randolf's explanations of the _Hiawatha_ scenery! Why had she not written a note about that hideous hearth-rug? Because Mr. Randolf was looking over Stowe's _Survey of London_. Methodical Phoebe felt herself in disgrace, and yet, somehow, she could not be sorry enough; she wanted a reprieve from exile at Hiltonbury, alone and away from all that was going on. At least she should hear whether _Macbeth_, at the Princess's Theatre, fulfilled Mr. Randolf's conceptions of it; and if Mr. Currie approved his grand map of the Newcastle district, with the little trees that she had taught him to draw. 
questions: What did Phoebe want a reprieve from?
questions: From where?
questions: What did she teach Mr. Currie to draw?
questions: What did Mervyn do at week's end?
questions: Who is Cecily's sister?
questions: Does the officer's wife have children?
questions: How many?
questions: Are they grown up?
questions: What was the purpose of the officer's wife's trip?
questions: Where was she going next?
questions: Who had to make way for her?
answers: exile
answers: she wanted a reprieve from exile
answers: at Hiltonbury
answers:  she wanted a reprieve from exile at Hiltonbury
answers: little trees
answers: with the little trees that she had taught him to draw.
answers: made his appearance
answers: At the end of a week Mervyn made his appearance in a vehement hurry
answers: an officer's wife
answers: Cecily's next sister, an officer's wife,
answers: Yes
answers: an officer's wife, was coming home with two little children
answers: two
answers:  an officer's wife, was coming home with two little children
answers: No
answers:  two little children
answers: farewell visit
answers: an officer's wife, was coming home with two little children, for a farewell visit
answers: the Cape
answers: an officer's wife, was coming home with two little children, for a farewell visit before going to the Cape
answers: Maria and Bertha
answers:  Maria and Bertha must make way for her. 